This seems a little odd to me. Citing the time it takes to implement contra-flow traffic as a problem, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell stated there is not enough time for the city of New Orleans to execute a mandatory evacuation. Additionally, she is asking all residents who do not evacuate to shelter in place for Hurricane Ida.
Contra-flow traffic is the process of turning inbound lanes into outbound lanes and depending on the metropolitan area takes around 8 hrs for local and state DOT to get set up. The mayor is asking for a voluntary evacuation saying “time is not on our side.” “The City can not issue a mandatory evacuation because we do not have time, Cantrell continued. WATCH:
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Yikes… and Biden’s team is running FEMA.
Additional News Report…. WATCH:
Pro – Tip :
Maybe move all the school buses to higher ground now , before they get flooded like Katrina.
Stock SuperDome with water ?
Tell thugs not to shoot at Coast Guard rescuers ?
I would mobilize shipments of water bottles to be ready… and the national guard to prevent widespread looting..
Every school bus should be on the road, already headed out.
Sounds like another deliberate Dem disaster/sabotage/refugee mission in progress.
Biggest hope is that some coastal water is cold, sucks the hurricane Cat down.
Communist Democrat Party USA elite motto: Never let a good crisis go to waste. Brian Williams is chomping at the bit to report on all the bodies floating past his hotel room window.
The media will all be happy to take the Afghanistan mess out of the news cycle.
Maybe the city workers were first to get the hell out…
That’s some dark humor there. I feel bad about laughing so hard, but the history of human folly has some doozies.
Get the military etc. out first.
And the cops.
Last time a Hurricane went thru there, instead of chasing and arresting the gang bangers and assorted thugs looting the place, the po-po decided to take the guns of law-abiding gun owners who had committed no other crime.
I hope law-abiding gun owners are prepared and organized this time.
There was plenty of time. She is lying.
Mayor LaToya [The Destroyer] Cantrell’s policy:
Mandatory vaccination…
Voluntary evacuation.
It’s kinda weird eating a beignet and having your palm read, while looking over at the sea wall and realizing that the water is above your head.
And the Fortune-Teller says:
‘I see a soggy beignet in your future’ 🙂
I’ll always wonder, did that fortune teller see Katrina coming? Good times, good vibes, but so much suffering there. Will never visit NOLA again. What a mess.
You know, I grew up near NO and it used to be a delightful city with friendly people, beautiful architecture, and a colorful history. Now it’s a third-world hellhole with idiots running it and bigger fools counting on the idiots to make it good for them.
Truth is, most large cities in the USA have fallen under the same pox – and there ain’t no cure in sight.
BINGO/fell short on
COVID deaths so they’re
gonna “DEPOPULATE”
by any means possible.
Every ACTION they take
to ELIMINATE us is …
well …INTENTIONAL.
Stay vigilant/stay safe
EVERYONE! ❤️???
Visibly incompetent. And to think Bush II was about as bad with his crony pals trusting the good intentions of local government and MSM in preparing for Katrina. Another case where RINO and Democrat act the same.
Now, Brownie was doing a heck of a job. Bush said so. 😉
At the last moment, Brownie wanted everyone to get in their cars and leave NO. It was beyond his bourgeois value set that many poor people don’t have cars.
The long term Green plan is to abolish the private auto, so emergency planning will have to radically change (Ha!). And when the power goes out, the electric car becomes useless (Hmm..).
The people of NO are the archetype of what Pelosi regards as the ideal American – poor and dependent on government. People dependent on the State never find fault or lose faith (they have no other choice).
As the “government is god” types grow in number, their performance in crises only declines (no hurricane gets to boss god around). And dissent is now blasphemy (or racism, right Mayor Lightfoot?).
That’s okay. The water never gets very high in New Orleans, the Milk Chocolate city. Sit still. This won’t hurt. Is Nagan still in jail? Is this Mayor an Affirmative Action mayor? Asking for a friend.
She is an affirmative action mayor. Incompetent moron. She has literally “re-imagined” NOLA into one big ghetto and the drones have allowed it.
What about Governor Blanco . . . I thought she should have been called “Governor Blanco” . . . she was really not with it.
She’s dead.
I meant to say, “Blanko”
They’re ALL Affirmative Action.
Maybe somebody should remind her of all the school busses that sat in water that could have been mobilized to save many lives in New Orleans during Katrina. Once again a conmunist demoncrat politician leaves their citizens fending for themselves while the “leader” shelters in a hurricane safe government shelter for them.
Another crime that needs addressing.
Don’t forget they also give themselves security.
Ah, but the bus drivers are unionized.
I’m sure negotiations are ongoing.
Praying for all in the path of this storm.
I hope people don’t leave their pets behind.
Shelter animals are being moved to Houston? Somebody is at work here, thankfully
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/08/28/150-shelter-pets-in-hurricane-idas-path-to-arrive-in-houston-from-louisiana/%3foutputType=amp
Forget the pets, how about the kids? During Katrina people made it out blunts and pot in toe, but somehow couldn’t keep up with their kids. Over 5000 precious children were abandoned!
There are no words. People like that are the ones that make me reconsider my position against mandatory sterilizations.
I was thinking parents like that need to win an all expenses paid vacation to Cuba.
Can you provide a link to that story? Haven’t heard that before.
You never heard heard that story because it’s total BS.
NEVER forget the fur babies.
It is what dems do.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/23/andrew-cuomo-reportedly-leaves-behind-dog-at-albany-mansion/
Someone I know who researched SuperStorm Sandy, said, the three things most stolen initially were: Pampers, booze and pharmaceuticals, and baby formula.
Not necessarily in that order.
Maybe they can send in those unused Puerto Rico
Emergency goods?
I hope many are able to leave anyway.
48 hours away? I would leave tonight.
You’d think that was common sense but then…
They knew yesterday- It was tracking there Wed at the NHC- cat 3
Seems like 8 hours to set up traffic devices, 40 hours for people to drive inland
like some said not everyone has a vehicle, been dependent so long many do not even know how to drive in many of our cities.
Can you spell K.A.T.R.I.N.A.?
Is stupidity in the Dems’ genes?
Yes.
As is ineptitude and incompetence.
All they can do is blame someone else for anything.
They (NOLA) leadership is literally still milking Katrina. Hell Katrina hit Bay St. Louis, MS not NO. It was the levees that failed. Katrina did not hit NOLA but that is the cities identity now.
As a resident of the NOLA Metro. I will jump in and let you know that Latoya is correct.
This storm is moving so fast, that if contra flow was initiated. There would be 1000’s of people on the interstates, as a Cat 4 touches down…a car is certainly not the place you want to be.
My family is leaving in the morning(Saturday) around 6AM to beat some of the traffic out of the Metro.
Ida is nothing to be trifled with.
Hope you are safe and good luck to you. Thanks for the clarification. Reading some of these comments and it just makes me wonder about people…what in the world is a milk chocolate city?
The people referencing that are not the ones you should wonder about. The nonsense and language of Mayor Nagan back in Katrina is responsible for that….and it’s still appropriate to mock him in connection with it. Sorry I don’t have what it takes to explain it. Just know there’s nothing weird about the commenters referencing it. They haven’t forgotten Nagan is all that’s about.
Milk Chocolate City — the past Mayor, Ray Nagin, said that God wanted New Orleans to be a 100% Black city after Hurricane Katrina. He said you take dark chocolate and mix it with milk and you get milk chocolate, which is what New Orleans is going to be.
Okay, enlighten me if I’m just not getting it, but how are you able to get out 7 hours from now but initiating contra flow now is too late?
Yeah, I was wondering that, too.
390,000 in New Orleans, per 2019 Census
5 major roads out of New Orleans
Each road has 2 lanes outbound.
If every resident drove by themselves, that would be 21 cars per hour for 30 hours, on the outbound lanes only.
It is very doable.
Wait. 390,000 / 30 hours / 10 lanes = 1300 cars per hour per lane. Let’s say they’d average 2 per car so 650. 5.5 seconds per car. Still under the peak of 1900 cited here: https://www.mikeontraffic.com/numbers-every-traffic-engineer-should-know/ so yeah maybe everybody should plan on driving out to higher ground for awhile.
Lots of them do not have vehicles, they rely on public transportation. Still doable if there is a good plan in place and it is followed.
And, the inbounds are changed to outbounds. You have double the capability to get people out.
You put a cut off time so the highways are not packed…
For some, being stuck on the highway us safer than their homes since the highway may be elevated.
9th ward will be completely swallowed by storm surge. But i guess people forget.
21 cars per MINUTE, not per hour. I just caught that mistake. Still very doable.
Good for you! And all those who don’t have personal transportation can just hope they can sit out the hurricane while the mayor of New Orleans sits in a shelter you paid for and leaves her citizens to fend for themselves.
Again, the image of hundreds of school buses siting in flood water that could have been used to move citizens out of New Orleans to higher ground stays in my mind. But it was all GW Bush’s fault, not some pos, self serving conmunist democrats mayor’s fault that left their citizens in harm’s way.
And our meat puppet in chief and his FEMA will just let it happen and try to blame it on Trump and global climate change/warming.
I watch Acuuweather in the mornings and they have been sounding the alarm for at least threes day now. Too many government officials count on government agencies to provide information/help on a timely basis. And too many citizens lose their homes, livelihood and lives trusting these scum.
Too many people forget you can’t count on the government in a time of crisis and the most feared words you can hear are ” I’m here from the government and I’m here to help you” ?
Your advice is contradicting.
1) Never Let a Crisis Go To waste.
2) If A crisis can be avoided..
DON’T.
3) See #1
When TV reporters are grabbing a pillar of a building acting like they are about to be blown away and then someone in the background walks right on by you know much of the reporters are crisis actors also.
This mayor, could easily be confused for one of the dc elites. She’s that incompetent.
Give her time, she’s gotta start somewhere.
RAT Translation:
The Toy does not want her voters leaving the city … they don’t return.
Where in hell do they find these numb skulls. I really don’t need to be told when to evacuate.
it’s shocking, but once you’ve experienced the general culture on new Orleans, it hits you:
there is a high density of very stupid, dependent, people in the fat city.
for non city people, we have no illusions about the realities of what consequences are.
in the fat city, people have developed a type of dependency so severe, they live deluded and detached from nearly everything that matters the most.
radical left progressives and Corruptors naturally find most success within these conditions.
in the fat city, it’s generational dependence..they don’t know freedom and liberty because they have never truly experienced it.
they “know” about it.
.but it’s just too much hard work..
that’s the mentality.
that’s the problem
no ambition to make a go outside of the fat big easy where everything is arranged for you..
until reality pumps out a real problem the masters can’t deal with..
new Orleans isn’t unique either… nearly every single large city in the united states has the same problem
if city government wanted a different outcome in their conclaves, they would have made it happen.
in the stronger more responsible town, parishes, people count on far less of government and more on just getting after it themselves.
the difference is impossible to ignore for what it really means.
smaller government really means
BIGGER PEOPLE!
Well said as always.
I love the show “ The First 48”
Just watch the middle seasons, 7-14/15 I think. I’ve seen about 2/3 of the episodes available. The NOLA episodes show exactly this Reg.
And you can see the similarities in all the cities the show covers, especially in ATL. The issues have nothing to do with race but one race has definitely been impacted more than others. The show puts it right in your face. And that impact has been managed by Democrats since the end of the civil war.
Correct … just like the Mississippi River – Black & White New Orleans corruption – is massive, curvy & deep … and the reason the first 2 ACORN Offices were in New Orleans and Chicago … with a direct Amtrak route between the 2 cities.
Every drop of rain to fall in NOLA has to be pumped uphill and out of the city.
that’s true…the geology has not changed though.
this is first about a lsck of long term strategic planning
second, this is about s current failure in leadership.
this new Orleans fiasco is not new.
it’s years dumping millions of dollars at a problem that has always proven to enable dangerous situations.
if the state was serious and had life and limb as a priority a specific area in new Orleans would have been DEZONED for human habitat.
instead they create a fraudulent tax based solution that affects everyone not just in Louisiana..
and then fails to evacuate them when the very well known threats looms .
this will repeat ad nauseam until the people in that area just decide to seek another location to live.
I give the odds of that happening be about minus zero.
the same corrupt officials who design and fund these failed projects are the same types who narrate a safe ward 9…
it’s the worst kind of fraud
they don’t want to change because there is political and financial power to let the place fail apart every coupl years and then spend spend spend patching it with bandaids
Elections have consequences.
Just unbelievable.
Prayers of safety for my Louisiana neighbors ?
Clearly New Orleans didn’t learn their lesson but I bet Lousiana and Houston have.
Houston politics began its blue slide into stupidity after Katrina “refugees” populated the city.
Remember that time Cajun Navy did it BETTER and FASTER than FEMA ?
Always.
Delta Dunkirk
This woman is obviously auditioning to be a General at the Pentagon.
THIS. Logical explanation
Hell, she’s a shoo-in!
yes! She can f*ck things up w/ the best of them!
Seems like a combination of incompetence combined with wondering how some FEMA could be fun to play with. You will own nothing and be happy- Klaus Schwab.
I wonder if a large percentage of the population who lives there don’t have their own transportation and the evacuation would have to be done by the local or state Government and perhaps there aren’t enough buses or other vehicles to get them all out. It doesn’t mean they shouldn’t try to get out as many as they can though.
In larger Metropolitan areas a lot of people don’t have cars. It isn’t imaginable in rural or suburban America but I remember living without a car in NYC. Still thr mayor should be mobilizing people to get out!
Is Amtrak and Greyhound running? Get out of Nawlins any way you can
Amtrak canceled
https://www.amtrak.com/alert/service-to-from-new-orleans-canceled-due-to-forecasted-hurricane-ida.html
Greyhound looks like it is still running. You’d think there would be a way to mobilize this somehow
https://bustracker.greyhound.com/stops/660583/New_Orleans_LA/departing
Walmart dove in to help with supplies when Katrina hit. Bet they could organize get a lot of people out of town to shelter elsewhere…
Don’t try and use logic. They don’t have any. It will just frustrate you.
Yes, I agree. They should be doing everything they can to get people to safety.
Don’t you worry. I am sure they have planned for all contingencies, just like his military leaders did with the evacuation of Afghanistan. They got this, Knock on wood. 😉
Yup, I’m really sensing the same level of confidence here too…
Citizens of New Orleans, as your mayor, my advice to you, as hurricane ida fast approaches, is to find a school bus and hide under one of the seats.
Vote for shit, well…
The machines will have Dominion over you under this system
all prepped here.
plans set.
see y’all on the other side.
please pray for south Louisiana.
please pray for those who are going to run into the storm at the earliest moments possible to help saves lives.
please pray for families that they may find strength in their faith in God
please pray for those who cannot help themselves who will need help.
please pray for these people:
police
fire
troopers
Cajun navy
the US COAST GUARD
and our soldier citizens who never back down in the face of adversity, national guard
we are strong because we decide to be strong and don’t take no for answer.
God Bless America
regitiger
Stay safe!
Praying, regitiger! Please, Lord, get regitiger and all in the path of this storm to safety. And, please tame this storm down. Thank you.
Prayers for you and family. Stay safe and armed.
They knew 2 days ago this was possible. They’ve been evacuating the oil rigs since Tuesday.
Even if the government is too stupid there’s got to be at least a few people with some common sense. Doesn’t there?
Put the Cajun Navy on standby.
And she said this HOURS ago.
Another Mayor or Gov. said the same a few years back (can’t remember who, or what the disaster was that was heading their way) and was widely castigated for it, because many people died because of it.
Mayor Cantrell more than likely attends the same seminars and conventions as many other leftist mayors like Lori Lighfoot from Chicago. This is a learned behavior taught by the absolute best credentialed community organizers in the world. Treat failure like success and blame the opposition.
just remember, if there is a mandatory evac, then those without cars have to be transported by the city/state. And if they are transported by them then they are responsible for their well-being (food, water, shelter) for how ever long the crisis lasts. They don’t want that responsibility.
Some of the stuff in this video is a bit out there but some have been monitoring hurricanes from live satellites feeds and it’s very strange to see the massive explosion in hurricane Henry or Henri at 25.35 in this video.
https://rumble.com/vlmb7s-situation-update-82421.html
No worries. Joe Biden has planned for every contingency.
He’ll shut the highways down so no one can get out.
Just to be safe. After he invites the Chinese in to help FEMA. Of course, State has provided directions for travelers. Pointing south. CIA has said they never knew a hurricane would hit Nebraska.
Congress is busy harrumphing.
Another Katrina in the making- a moron Mayor then too. 72 hours with reverse flow would help thousands get to safety.
What are they going to do with all the illegals they have been flying into there since January there waiting for disposition??
My guess as to what they are going to do is mix the ones from s. America with the new ones from Afghanistan in a small area turn off the lights for a couple of weeks and see what happens. This should be interesting.
If you’re listening to what Mayor LaToya Cantrell and the government has to say, you’re already screwed. It will interesting to see how the perpetual victims blame Trump. Will Sheppard Smith be in town for this one?
Are the LEO’s gonna seize the citizen’s firearms like they did after Katrina?
Another democrat screwing up during a hurricane just like last time. After she screws up at least she won’t be able to pin the blame ona Republican this tune.
Sounds like the Illuminati Globalists are planning to blow the levees again, to “change the subject.” It’s forecasted to be a Cat 3. Last time they blew the levees (in two locations) it was only a CAT 1.
What are the odds they’ll confiscate guns again?
And the ninth ward?
Another Set-up or stupidity? My vote is Demonrat set-up. Hope the people are awake and take their safety in their own hands.
Why can’t they order evacuation for the low, right risk of flooding areas at least?
which one is the Mayor and what is Mitch McConnell doing there?
President Trump treated every impending hurricane like it was passing directly through his own children’s homes. He over did it every time. I love that man.
Joe and Jill knows how they feel because Beau died from cancer and President Harris just returned from Vietnam where it rains a lot so she can help them cope with their you know the thing.
Welcome to NOLA- either bullets flying or swamp water higher than your head.. DEMOCRAT run paradise..
How many times has New Orleans flooded?
And how many times have they rebuilt in the same place that has repeatedly flooded?
Maybe it’s time to prohibit rebuilding in the flood zone.
TRANSLATION: We’ll wait for the BILLION$ in aid coming from or friends in the Xiden Regime to “Build Back Better”…LOL!
Unfortunately people will believe this moron.
The media will be happy to have something in the news besides Afghanistan.
Praying for all those in the path of the storm.